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MS is simply trying to provide an OS that works for everyone. It's when people try to tweak the OS back to "Windows 7" or do crazy tweaks to run old outdated software or hardware do issues arise.
As noted by many, I've yet to see the crazy issues others post about in claiming Windows 10 broke their system. Nearly 90 percent of these issues when looked at comes from misunderstandings, improper tweaks (to include registry), and disabling stuff without proper knowledge. When things go awry, MS gets blamed.
Also add that MS is not responsible for supporting old outdated programs and hardware. That belongs to the user to insure they have to latest hardware/software commensurate with the latest OS. Nothing new here.
As to the "installing software" statement, yeah is was brash and inviting nothing but an unnecessary argument.
Peace
Well, not exactly, Retail license was always transferable and in some cases OEM too. Problem is that Ryzen and Kabby lake did not exist at the time W7 was conceived and nobody can make sure if something non existent at that time would work satisfactory and so can not be covered by any promise to update. That of course doesn't mean that MS couldn't keep on updating such systems but it's entirely within their discretion rights. There are many analogies to other things.
One analogy comes to mind. My '70 Mustang was made to run on 109 octane gas, (it said so right on the gas cap). Few years later unleaded gas of 87 octane became mandatory and 110+ octane became unavailable. What was Ford supposed to do, manufacture unlawful fuel even as they had obligation to keep spare parts for at least 10 years along with servicing capabilities (full support) ?
Good afternoon. I hear that, except the person I speak of seems to be above average, and maybe above average needs. I can see his point. some good reading here when you have time (because it does provide a well-articulated viewpoint, which has some merit. "EricC" is the person I'm referring to.
Have a good day.
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Whats a Reasonable Windows Update Strategy Going Forward? - Windows 10 - MSFN
Wasn't that NoelC ?
Anyway, his points are everybody's wishes, weather they know it or not. But.... here is a question of NOT supporting and not how. Sure, who doesn't want his system to be stable and not damaged by wrong update ? Who wouldn't want proper lifetime support and nothing ever to go wrong ?
They also talk about W7 for instance that "Just works" but that is also not the truth, it had many "growing pains" with Vista being just worst and first part of it.
W8 wasn't devoid of things like that either and still isn't a case of "just works". Maybe some utopian OS will get there at some point, just maybe.
Hi there
Some of these "So called Tweak artists" are quite valuable --by doing things and producing results far beyond what the original designers of the OS had intended -- so that the next "Iteration" of the OS can include a load of these improvements.
I hope these so called Tinkerers keep on tinkering.
Just look at Cars for example - loads of mainstream improvements have come from the so called "Tinkerers".
That doesn't imply that everybody willy nilly should do this - and certainly if you DO do it then you should be 100% aware of what to do if you break something and how to fix it (e.g restore or whatever).
A Great feature of Windows is that it IS "Tinkerable" --possibly nothing like the extent you can do it with Linux but still eminently "tinkerable".
So innovators and experimenters --please keep doing your stuff -- the improvements will certainly be propagated to future updates / releases.
Cheers
jimbo
There's always going to be exceptions to rule, but for the most part they are in the minority and not the majority of which we speak of. I think we're tying to make an argument of the minor where the major is the real issue.
And no one said there aren't legitimate issues, heck I've had them; We're simply talking about the majority which are user created. How many times have we seen the "Windows 10 hosed my system" only to find it was user error?
Peace